The Wood Blog
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Mareiner x Minka: A New Chapter
Sometimes, you have to clear a few branches out of the way to open up new opportunities. That’s exactly what’s happening with us—In December 2024, Minka Holz- und Metallverarbeitungs GmbH acquired Mareiner Holz GmbH. With Minka by our side, we can continue our passion for wood in 2025—and, quite literally, grow new roots. Zum Artikel
Resurrection From The Flames
As a regional bakery chain, Steffl Bäck has reacted to the loss of its central bakery in Oberhaus due to a major fire with a radical change of direction and is now a quality-obsessed artisan bakery. With lots of wood and glass, the new building designed by the jack-of-all-trades Johannes Prettenthaler and his Joiner team is an architectural expression of the new direction. Zum Artikel
The Forestry Elite Centre
Located not far from Sankt Marein, the forestry school in Bruck an der Mur is the only one of its kind in the whole of Austria – and is also unique in other respects: the forestry managers of tomorrow have been trained here for decades. Mareiner sales employees Martin Breitenberger and Brigitte Treitler are among the graduates of the college. Zum Artikel
Building Ecologically: as if it were alternative
Mareiner: The construction industry has an enormous appetite: “It devours almost a third of our resources and produces around 40% of our annual waste,” calculates university professor Andrea Rieger-Jandl from the Department of Building History and Building Research at the Vienna University of Technology. As if that wasn’t enough, the production of cement and concrete, […] Zum Artikel
